The Federal Trade Commission has rescinded a Biden-era policy statement that had expanded expectations around breach notifications for certain health apps and connected-device providers. The move is part of a broader agency push toward regulatory streamlining, but it also sends a clear signal to the digital-health market: the FTC may be narrowing how aggressively it interprets and enforces health-data breach…
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The Second Circuit delivered an important win to the FDIC in litigation arising from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, holding that the agency did not need to file claims in the parent company’s bankruptcy case to preserve defensive setoff rights. The ruling strengthens the FDIC’s hand as receiver and clarifies how bank receivership powers intersect with bankruptcy procedure in…
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The Third Circuit’s September 3, 2026 opinion in No. 25-1233 is now on the radar for appellate watchers, though practitioners should note an important limitation at the outset: based on the case materials currently reflected in the docket entry, the publicly available information does not yet provide enough detail to assess the underlying claims, the panel’s holding, or whether the…
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The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has raised another $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed.By my calculations, that puts the total amount Harvey has raised since its 2022 launch at north of $1.5 billion.Other investors participating in this round were Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, Conviction, Elad Gil, Evantic, GIC, Goldman Sachs…
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Bridget M. McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court who joined the American Arbitration Association in 2023 as its president and CEO, helping to spearhead the AAA’s innovation efforts, particularly with regard to its adoption of generative AI, has announced she is stepping down from that role.Steve Errick, the AAA’s chief development officer, will move into…
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Calling it the “intelligence foundation” of its platform, Casepoint today launched Casepoint IQ, a suite of tools within a single AI framework that spans the company’s products for e-discovery, legal holds, FOIA and investigations.The company says that Casepoint IQ pulls together all of its AI capabilities – including new semi- and fully autonomous agents, its generative AI assistants, its pre-existing…
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By Caroline Hill, editor, Legal IT Insider “When you think about the overall strategy of Bloomberg and extending into workflows using our proprietary data and intelligence, that really is what, to me, the […]
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The Third Circuit has revived a closely watched challenge to New Jersey’s gun-industry public-nuisance statute, allowing the National Shooting Sports Foundation to continue pressing claims that the law is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law. In a September 8, 2026 decision, the appellate court reversed a lower-court stay that had paused the federal case while related state-court issues played out.
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Singapore Management University (SMU) today announced that SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law is joining Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, becoming the first university in Asia to do so. […]
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced on September 8 that it reached an agreement with Kansas in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against a servicemember, marking another example of the federal government using civil-rights enforcement tools against a state-level employer.

While the public announcement was brief, the development is significant for employment lawyers, government counsel, and compliance teams…
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